Soylent Green
Cannibalistic food source
Soylent Green is a 1973 science fiction film set in an overpopulated dystopia where the titular food product—supposedly made from plankton—turns out to be manufactured from human corpses.
The phrase has become shorthand for any disturbing secret about what's really in something: What's in these hot dogs? Soylent Green?
The film's famous line "Soylent Green is people!" functions as a cultural reference for shocking revelations.
- cannibalismIntraspecies flesh consumption
- overpopulationUnsustainable density of inhabitants
- population controlPolicies limiting demographic growth
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- foodConsumable nourishment source
Charlton Heston · food supply · nutrition · apocalypse · movie · people · dystopia · dystopian future · famine · film · scarcity · Gattaca · euthanasia · morality · science fiction · post-apocalyptic · mystery · totalitarian
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- Fictional BrandsAcme, Acme Corporation, Duff Beer, Kwik-E-Mart, Umbrella Corporation
- Eco FilmsAn Inconvenient Truth, Our Planet, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, The Lorax
- fictional foodsbutterbeer, polyjuice potion, Scooby Snacks, treacle tart, waybread
Soylent Greenfarm-to-table
Direct producer-to-diner philosophy
whole foods · organic produce · truth in labeling · single-origin · locally sourced
Soylent Greencornucopia
Abundance symbol, horn-shaped
land of milk and honey · Garden of Eden · sustainable agriculture · food forest · ambrosia